Lara Logan speaks about sexual assault on journalist in Tahrir / CPJ
The story sounds hideously like another—one of a chaotic, predatory attack on a woman journalist in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Clothes torn from her body, hundreds of…
More discussion but few changes on sexual violence / CPJ
When word went around that a mob had sexually assaulted CBS correspondent and CPJ board member Lara Logan in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in February 2011, the…
One Victim’s Battle to End Sexual Violence Against Journalists / The Atlantic
Jineth Bedoya Lima hooked her eyes on the middle distance and gave a look of contempt. She was tucked in a seat at a hearing of…
She’s a war reporter, but what is she wearing?
There’s an article in the U.K. Independent today about women war correspondents. Called “Female war reporters: ‘We’re given the softer side of war’,” the story gets…
The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalists / CPJ
Nine years passed before Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya spoke publicly about the brutal rape she endured while reporting on right-wing paramilitaries in May 2000. On assignment…